Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3407
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Yuko Sanpei works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Yuko Sanpei appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yuko. Pretty Cure All Stars F is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, action. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Naoya Ando, Yuta Tanaka, Ryota Nakamura and others, Yuko Sanpei helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023) as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice) · Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames (2026) as Seita (voice) · Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution (2021) as Renton Beams Thurston (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3407 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Pretty Cure All Stars F
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Pretty Cure All Stars F
Most frequent director
Naoya Ando
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Naoya Ando
Most common genre
Action
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 12m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.5
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames, Pretty Cure All Stars F, Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened.
Most productive era
2020s
4 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.61 film |
| Action | 6.41 film | 6.94 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.62 films |
| Romance | — | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Yamirami (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
The current state of the argument, as Seita (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
5 of 5 films
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
Directed by Yuta Tanaka
as Seita (voice)
Directed by Naoya Ando
as Renton Beams Thurston (voice)
Directed by Hisatoshi Shimizu
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
Directed by Ryota Nakamura
as Yamirami (voice)
Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice) gives Yuko Sanpei a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Seita (voice)
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames (2026)
Performance score7.8
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Seita (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Renton Beams Thurston (voice)
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution (2021)
Performance score6.6
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Renton Beams Thurston (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams (2021)
Performance score6.5
Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
Start here. Pretty Cure All Stars F is the clearest statement of what Yuko Sanpei does — accessible, 73 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yuko at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened (2013)
Keeps the action register of Pretty Cure All Stars F but asks for a colder reading of it.
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution (2021)
Keeps the action register of Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened but asks for a colder reading of it.
Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams (2021)
Keeps the action register of Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames (2026)
Keeps the action register of Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened
Hisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
Ryota Nakamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure All Stars F
Naoya Ando
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure All Stars FNaoya Ando
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in FlamesHisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-EvolutionKunihiko Yuyama
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend AwakenedRyota Nakamura
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of DreamsSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
as Renton Beams Thurston (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Yuko Sanpei has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in action, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
as Renton Beams Thurston (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened
as Yamirami (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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